A method for identifying alternative or cryptic donor splice sites within gene and mRNA sequences. Comparisons among sequences from vertebrates, echinoderms and other groups

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Buckley, Katherine M ^a,c   Florea, Liliana D ^b,d   Smith, L Courtney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

185/333 GENE; ACCURACY; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; ECHINODERM; GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; TRANSGENE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; RNA SPLICING; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS; VERTEBRATA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 68849097355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-318     Document Type: Article

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